The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-16
LOCAL ITEMS,

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Mr. J. F. Pollard is on business tri
to Boston this week.
Deputy Sheriff Bradbury, of Fairael,
was In town Monday.
We hear it predicted hat this is to b
an open, wet winter.
DIR. o. Fitzgerald will be at Hotel Hes
elton the 22nd inst, for one day only
The W. C. T. U. are to have sociabl
at their hall this wednesday, evening.
Mrs VIM. II. Pitts returned home las
week, from a visit to Boston and Quincy
Mass.
There is talk of getting up fair tt
raise funds for the Skowhegan Base Bal
club.
DR.. n. G. ii. Pulsifer and wife, o,
Waterville, were in town for day las
week.
Fred S. Webb went to Portland, Mon
day last, to take course in Shaw Com
mercial College.
When ordering Thanksgiving dinners
all the best cooks are sure to visit Patter-
sons grocery.
Much of the real estate owned by the
late John Vosmus Is soon to be sold by
the executors Of his will
Geo. d. Arnold comes out, this week
with his annual Thanksgiving proclama-
ton to the cooks OF this vicinity.
Mr.. S. F. Smiley, wife, and SON. OF
Someryille, Mass, are on visit to Skow-
hogan, their former home.
Miss Bertha Farrand departed Monday
morning, for Medheld, Mass, where she
will pass the winter with relatives.
The library of the Congregational Sun
day school has recently received an addi-
ton of some two hundred new books.
Our extra sheet is newsy and read
able one this week and every week, and
The second assembly in the young
folks course at Fairgrievcs Hall was
postponed from last evening to the 22nu
inst,
The Mechanic st. school has been dis
continued Cause, teacher and scholars
are all afflicted with that contagious dis
ease, measles.
The Woman's Club and the Sorosis will
meet with Mrs. Henry White, Thursday,
yyb har xril Ia Inv,
Rev. Lorenza Haynes.
Hon. d. II. Bartlett and wife. of
Athens, started for Kansas City, Mo,
Monday morning last. They expect to be
gone about one month.
Pollard and Parsons are to succeed to
the business recently carried on by the
late J. Vosmus, and have rented the store
house at lG6 Water Street
Our merchants have way about this
time of going to market to purchase Holt
day goods. Noah c. Kendall is in BOs-
ton this week for this purpose.
NJ. b. lieselton gives an assembly at
Heselton Hall, Thursday evening of this
week, the first of several to be given at
this place the coming winter,
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, and
the turkey will have to suffer. The tur-
key may also cause some suffering. That
abused organ the human stomach, cannot
stand everything.
Amy of our readers who chance to be at
New Portland can be sure of finding in
the Blaisdell House a hotel wort of
their patronage, and a genial landlord
who knows how to cater to the wants of
his guests.
Mr.. J. S. Murray and wife, of Boston,
Mass, are spending some two weeks
among friends in this village Mr.. MUIR
'ay is a member of Boston Fire Depar :
-nent, and usually spends his vacation at
his old home.
It's good plan to look over all the ad
vertisements. Ii takes but a few mo-
ments, and you may learn where you can
save dollar or several dollars The best
callers have something to say to the pub
ic through the papers.
We hear it reported that one of the
posses on the water works was a little
too free in the use OF shovel on one of
the Italian laborers, last week and soon
had the whole gang at him, having mar
row escape from rough usage.
Torrance Homes, a young Canadian,
while at work in the woods at Moxie, five
falling tree, Saturday, and lived about
an hour. A physician was called but he
was dead when the doctor arrived.
Railroad commissioner Wildes left
home, Monday morning, for Portland
The commissioners are examining the
roads west of that city, this week. Com
missioner Anderson is unwell and unable
to attend TO his duties on the board.
Mr.. Geo H. Pishon is now running .
hay presses and pays from 50 to $40 dol
lars for hay. He says $40 is the highes
price for the very best quality. He ship
hay to Boston and to Portland and SOM
nearer ports. The New York market i
full of hay raised in that State and ives
and is also well supplied with apples.
The lecture at the Universalist churcI
last Sabbath evening, by Rev. Mis-
Haynes, was listened to with interest b,
a large audience. On Sunday eyenin
next at 7.30 o'clock at the same place
Miss Haynes will deliver her second lee
ture intended more specially for the ear
of our young people, her subject "B
Somebody
A meeting of the shareholders in til
Wesserunsett Wooden Mill Company, c
East Madison, is called at Grange Hal
In that place, on Saturday, Nov. Goth, /
8 80 O'Clock A. NJ. One of the articles
be acted upon will be to see If the shar
holders will vote to increase the capt.
stock of the company from thrry-five
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